Tarinof dance company 

A contemporary dance company presided by dancers and choreographers, Maiko Hasegawa and Mamoru Sakata. The present members are Mikuri Amari, Nanako Iwase, Rion Onaya, Kaho Kawano, Kohtaro Sengoku, and Kyoko Watabe. Since the foundation in 2013, the Company has given the performance of a new work every year. Through the unique embodiment of Hasegawa and Sakata and the delicate and powerful works, they multidirectionally express the discomfort lurking in modern society and daily life.
Maiko Hasegawa and Mamoru Sakata learned classical ballet and contemporary dance from childhood. Hasegawa took part in Lausanne International Ballet Concours. Mamoru Sakata majored in choreography and dance in the Art Department of Tamagawa University and under the ISP Program of Laban Center (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance), London, U.K. They won the first prizes and special awards in many dance contests in Japan.
In 2012, “Amulet”, the first collaboration work of Hasegawa and Sakata won the first place, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize in the choreography creation section of National Dance Contest (Tokyo, April, 2012). From 2013, they stayed in Paris for 2 year and seven months under the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists of Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. In Paris, they studied under Nathalie Pubellier, a choreographer and a teacher of contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Superier and at the Studio Harmonic. They took part in the work of Pubellier during the stay in Paris, and planned her first performance in Japan with the same program and also held her special workshop in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. In 2014, Hasegawa and Sakata launched SURU, a collaborative project of real-time image, music, and contemporary dance, cooperating with a choreographer, an image creator, and a composer, all from France, and this team had residences and performances in Nice, Antibes, and Digne-les-Bains in Southern France. After returning to Japan, based in Tokyo, they continued to present new works on domestic and overseas stages, and developed a variety of activities across countries and genres including participation in domestic and international dance festivals, dance teaching, choreography in workshops, musical, and modern operas, choreography and appearance in Shiseido Hair Show, planning and execution of international exchange, appearance as dancers in the works of other choreographers. In 2023, they are planning to participate in Nakanojo Biennale.
From 2019 to present, they are serving as special advisers and juries for the category of contemporary dance in Shonan Ballet Competition.　　They are lecturers of the intermediate contemporary dance class of TOKYO STEPS ARTS, part-time lecturers of the ballet and dance course of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, and lecturers of G-Screw Dance Lab. In 2022, they founded a stock company (TARINOF Co. Ltd.), and Mamoru Sakata has been inducted into the president, Maiko Hasegawa into the vice president.